Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi concluded a two-day visit to New Delhi on 19 August, meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval—the highest-level engagement between the neighbours since their 2020 border clashes. Wang and Doval co-chaired the 24th round of Special Representatives talks on the boundary dispute. Both sides said conditions along the Himalayan frontier are now “stable” and agreed to maintain peace, strengthen confidence-building measures and advance delimitation negotiations. According to Indian officials, Wang told Jaishankar that Beijing has lifted export restrictions imposed earlier this year on fertilisers, rare-earth magnets and tunnel-boring machines, easing supply pressures on India’s agriculture, electric-vehicle and infrastructure projects. During his meeting with Modi, Wang delivered a message and invitation from President Xi Jinping for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin later this month. Modi welcomed the overture, said bilateral ties have made “steady progress” and called for predictable relations to bolster regional prosperity. Stressing that the two Asian powers should view each other as “partners, not rivals,” Wang departed New Delhi for Kabul and Islamabad, where he will hold separate talks with Afghan and Pakistani leaders as part of Beijing’s broader regional diplomacy push.